[lit-ideas] Re: On Finding a Friend Dead
- From: Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:41:15 -0500
> hank you, Mike. Everyone seems to have immediately understood but me. You
> are so good at creating scenes, I couldn't tell whether this was something
> that happened twenty years or twenty hours ago ... that is, until other,
> more perceptive, people replied to your post.
>
> Many years ago, I was one of the judges at a poetry slam. Young and
> beautiful Nicole Blackman, who had been my friend, read a long, graphic poem
> about incest. After the reading, an older woman approached her and thanked
> her for revealing her pain, said that she had suffered the same way. Nicole
> laughed in the woman's face, said, "Are you kidding? I made that all up!"
> and walked away. After that night, Nicole was no longer my friend,
>
Eric,
If I may ask... did you walk away from Nicole because she made it up or
because she laughed and dismissed the real sufferer?
paul
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